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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... PaperThin CommonSpot

"Extensibility at the code level is not a strength of the PaperThin offering. This is one product in which you have to go to considerable effort to expose raw code of any kind in the user interface. CommonSpot is, for all intents, a black box. To some extent, this is by design. The company has a strong orientation toward helping non-technical customers stay non-technical. "

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Paperthin Closes Big Gap

24-Jun-2002

One of the raps against against CommonSpot (Paperthin's CMS that appears to lead the ColdFusion-based pack) was that it was not object oriented. That is, you couldn't easily disconnect content snippets from a site's overall structure for greater re-use without the cumbersome copy-paste routines associated with lower-end solutions. The new 3.0 version attempts redress through the addition of "custom elements." Unfortunately, these need to be scripted carefully by an administrator, and we'll want to see how the approach fares in real production, but the direction appears worthwhile. BTW, note the Sec. 508 compliance module in the new version. So what's missing in CommonSpot 3.0? Answer: XML anything -- the new version still predated ColdFusion MX...
What's new in CommonSpot 3.0

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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